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I was born in 1933 into a Jewish family that owned the second largest chocolate factory in Poland. Until the age of 6, I enjoyed a privileged existence. In 1939, we fled Nazi occupied Poland. For a year and a half, we traveled through Lithuania, Russia, Japan and Canada before finally reaching the United States. When I speak as a Holocaust Survivor, I tell students about the giant tub of melted chocolate that kept reappearing inspirationally in my thoughts and dreams. They draw my story, making them witnesses to a time that must never be forgotten. Even in the worst of times, keep swimming!
Krakow, Poland
Leon Prochnik